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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: johnrt on February 13, 2015, 02:01:05 pm
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I have never seen this before, but apparently they did make bartops back in the 80's also. So to all you bartop haters in here: Up yours! :lol
(http://www.andysarcade.net/personal/cabs/MadAlien1.JPG)
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Is that? ...Is that a keyboard tray?
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Is that? ...Is that a keyboard tray?
No, it's a base to make it look like a cabaret. :lol
Edit: this cab is from 1980. They didn't have keyboard trays back then:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8482 (http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8482)
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If that's a bartop how would you play it being eye level with the joystick?
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I have never seen this before, but apparently they did make bartops back in the 80's also. So to all you bartop haters in here: Up yours! :lol
Jim, oh, Jim, he's talking to you...
Actually, Nintendo made them, too...
(http://i46.tinypic.com/wu579g.jpg)
And that image you posted is just a cabaret on a stand. No way that would work on top of a bar.
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I have never seen this before, but apparently they did make bartops back in the 80's also. So to all you bartop haters in here: Up yours! :lol
Jim, oh, Jim, he's talking to you...
Actually, Nintendo made them, too...
(http://i46.tinypic.com/wu579g.jpg)
And that image you posted is just a cabaret on a stand. No way that would work on top of a bar.
At a quick glance that looks like a microwave....now that makes me want to turn my overhead microwave in my kitchen into a hanging bartop so I can play arcade games while waiting for dinner to cook.
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And who can forget this masterpiece..
(http://i.imgur.com/0vxUQYR.jpg)
I've got one rotting away under one of my pinball machines.
:dunno
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I've got one rotting away under one of my pinball machines.
RESTORE!!!
(http://www.avtransfers.com/Images/Services/PhotoRestoration/san-antonio-photo-restoration-sample-01.jpg)
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It works 100%.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,137280.msg1415779.html#msg1415779 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,137280.msg1415779.html#msg1415779)
Come get.
:cheers:
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It works 100%.
Oh, that's a beauty!
(http://www.379009.net/misc/10990814_10155179718715263_9035568840761802487_n.jpg)
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RESTORE!!!
BEFORE
(http://www.379009.net/misc/10990814_10155179718715263_9035568840761802487_n.jpg)
AFTER
(http://wallpapersinhq.com/images/medium/a-christina_hendricks-1473903.jpg)
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She looks happier in that photo than I've ever been in my entire life. :-[
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She looks happier in that photo than I've ever been in my entire life. :-[
I agree... I haven't been that happy since I first discovered what my right hand was made for...
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It works 100%.
Oh, that's a beauty!
(http://www.379009.net/misc/10990814_10155179718715263_9035568840761802487_n.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/sUbmGgg.png)
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I have never seen this before, but apparently they did make bartops back in the 80's also. So to all you bartop haters in here: Up yours! :lol
That is not a bartop.
That is a Euro sit-down cabinet propped up to be played as a cabaret. it's akin to doing this:
(http://thumbs1.picclick.com/d/l400/pict/261755722940_/BLAST-CITY-CANDY-CABINET-Bass-Fishing-Arcade-Game.jpg)
I'm not on the #nobartops train, but I am advocating #noweecadebartops.
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That is a Euro sit-down cabinet
Yes... it is... Other people would call it a bartop... but hey... ::)
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That is a Euro sit-down cabinet
Yes... it is... Other people would call it a bartop... but hey... ::)
And those people would be incorrect. Just sayin' ;)
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(http://i.imgur.com/u7QjLBQ.jpg)
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You'd really have to have to lower the bar for that
That's a cabaret.
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It works 100%.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,137280.msg1415779.html#msg1415779 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,137280.msg1415779.html#msg1415779)
Come get.
:cheers:
That thing is actually pretty cool.
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(http://i.imgur.com/u7QjLBQ.jpg)
That restorations is equally hilarious as horrible ;D
For those who doesn't know the story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19349921 (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19349921)
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Well, if that is a bartop, I wouldn't be able to play it being just below 5.7 feet tall/short...
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Well if you remove that base, it's not an upright nor a cabaret.
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Seems like this is difficult for people to understand.
It's not a bartop. It's not a cabaret. It's a sit-down cabinet, akin to the Japanese "candy" cabinets, the white gel-coated fiberglass ones that requires you to be sitting on a chair to comfortably play.
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Seems like this is difficult for people to understand.
It's not a bartop. It's not a cabaret. It's a sit-down cabinet, akin to the Japanese "candy" cabinets, the white gel-coated fiberglass ones that requires you to be sitting on a chair to comfortably play.
I have seen those in person, you would need to be about 8' tall to play one of those on a bar.
The Playchoice bartop was a complete and total failure, that is why there are so few of them. No one wanted to pay money to play with dinky baby joysticks on a teeny screen.
I have also seen bartop Golden Tees and bartop Arkanoids. Also failures.
While most of the "bartops" people are building today either seem to to fall into one of two categories.
#1. Full sized cabinet with the bottom half missing.
#2. A netbook with a gamepad would have been better.
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(http://www.andysarcade.net/personal/cabs/MadAlien1.JPG)
I think this is a very charming cab design, great for a little multi to sit in the corner.
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Nobody puts mad alien in the corner
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While the mad alien posted here is not a bartop, it is still true that Bartop machines do date back to even further back then the 80s.
The first pong machine that was installed by Bushnel and Alcorn was in fact a bartop.
So really it was a bartop machine that really got this whole video game coinop industry rolling.
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Anybody ever come across basic measurements for one of these Sega Superminis?
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Is a bartop a unit that goes on top of a bar? :dunno